On December 7, Polyphony, a renowned music ensemble from Nazareth, Israel, makes its San Francisco debut at Congregation Emanu-El. Founded by musician and educator Nabeel Abboud Ashkar, the ensemble ...

Congregation Emanu-El has announced the season launch of the upcoming Cantors' Concert Series on Saturday, December 7 at 7.30 p.m., presenting the San Francisco debut of POLYPHONY, the renowned and ...

If this time of year should prompt everyone to count their blessings, then one precious musical gift shines brightly over ...

Music can move us from darkness to light. Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico is performing a suite of songs at the Cathedral of St. John on Friday, July 12. The varied program was designed to demonstrate ...

Very early music was written for the human voices and later including instruments performing the same line of music. The music term, polyphony, refers to two or more different melodic lines that are ...

Woodwind players of the Galilee Chamber Orchestra play a passage. Courtesy of Polyphony On Nov. 19, the Galilee Chamber Orchestra, the first professional orchestra in Israel consisting of Jewish and ...

As executive director of The Polyphony Foundation, Nabeel Abboud Ashkar believes music is a universal language. In a recent interview with Greenwich Time, Ashkar, a renowned concert violinist, ...

Saxophonist Jasper Blom's double album Polyphony, released on Whirlwind, centres around two key elements. Firstly, his long- standing penchant for adding a guest soloist to his quartet, reflected in ...

Imagine: sitting in a room, surrounded by the other. Your entire life, you’ve heard myths about these people — who they are, what they believe. They frighten you, but also pique your curiosity because ...

After Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon forced the annual Liturgical Festival of religiously themed classical music ...

The 17th century was the time of the highest flowering of choral musical culture in Russia and Ukraine. This century was also the richest in the variety of musical styles of liturgical music. In the ...